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Biography for Dieter Fox
POSTED 10/12/2009
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Biography for Dieter Fox
Dieter Fox is Director of the Intel Labs Seattle and Associate Professor in the Computer Science & Engineering Department at the University of Washington, Seattle. He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Bonn, Germany. Before joining UW, he spent two years as a postdoctoral researcher at the CMU Robot Learning Lab. His research focuses on probabilistic state estimation and machine learning and their application to robotics and activity recognition. Dr. Fox has published over 100 technical papers and is co-author of the text book "Probabilistic Robotics."
He has been on the editorial board of the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research and the IEEE Transactions on Robotics. Dr. Fox was program co-chair of AAAI-08. He has received several awards for his research, including an NSF CAREER award and best paper awards at robotics and Artificial Intelligence conferences.